Information is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Robert Baden-PowellCambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.
Stephen HawkingWhy not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
DiogenesI mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
Keanu ReevesStorytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.
Margaret AtwoodI went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
Jackie ChanA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny YoungmanThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch SpinozaEducate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas JeffersonI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaOur generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret AtwoodI don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Richard P. FeynmanUntil justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.
Noam ChomskyAcademic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert KiyosakiI am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.
Clint EastwoodWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph AddisonNatural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. SeussThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettFirst figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. FeynmanNot a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMy biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Steve JobsWhen schools flourish, all flourishes.
Martin LutherBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonI no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
Bob MarleyFables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
HypatiaCollege isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
J. ColeAll of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAs a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
Jane GoodallMilitary school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
Robert KiyosakiIf someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim RohnNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam ChomskyThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnYoung men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.
Russell M. NelsonThe giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor RooseveltIn almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
Bill GatesIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsBesides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Jackie ChanI was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
J. ColeMy mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
Narendra ModiI never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.
Lando NorrisThe most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
Aldous HuxleyScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HippocratesIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston ChurchillEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar WildeThe training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThere are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
Robert Baden-PowellI think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
Michelle ObamaLearning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da VinciMy elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin FranklinWe do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoIt is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Desmond TutuIn school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Stephen CoveyThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil GibranIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaIt is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.
Alice Walker